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Dima Solodukha	4e30dde2ac	fix(router): compact JSON evades compression via whitespace token counting (#1857) ... ## Description `ContentRouter` counts section tokens with `len(content.split())`. On compact machine-generated JSON — the default output of `json.dumps(separators=(",", ":"))`, `JSON.stringify`, and boto3 — there are no spaces, so a large payload counts as ~1 "token". Every section compression ratio then computes as ~1.0 and the `min_ratio` acceptance gate silently rejects the compressor's real output: the router logs `router:noop` while SmartCrusher separately logs `was_modified=true`. Compression effectively no-ops on the most common agent payload type (tool results returning JSON), on every provider. ## Type of Change - [x] Bug fix (non-breaking change that fixes an issue) - [ ] New feature (non-breaking change that adds functionality) - [ ] Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change) - [ ] Documentation update - [ ] Performance improvement - [ ] Code refactoring (no functional changes) ## Changes Made - Add `_estimate_tokens(text)` — a size-proportional estimate (`len(text) // 4`, floored at 1), monotone in content size for any format. - Replace the decision-relevant `len(...split())` counts in `ContentRouter` (section original/compressed token counts feeding the ratio gates, plus the debug estimates) with `_estimate_tokens(...)`. - Add `tests/test_content_router_compact_json.py`. ## Testing - [x] Unit tests pass (`pytest`) - [x] Linting passes (`ruff check .`) - [x] Type checking passes (`mypy headroom`) - [x] New tests added for new functionality - [x] Manual testing performed ### Test Output ```text $ pytest tests/test_content_router_compact_json.py -q 2 passed, 1 warning $ ruff check headroom/transforms/content_router.py tests/test_content_router_compact_json.py All checks passed! $ mypy headroom/transforms/content_router.py --ignore-missing-imports Success: no issues found in 1 source file ``` ## Real Behavior Proof - Environment: `ContentRouter` invoked directly on a 150-item ECS-service JSON tool_result, Python 3.13, estimator tokenizer. - Exact command / steps: run the same payload two ways — compact (`json.dumps(..., separators=(",", ":"))`) and the identical data with spaces (`separators=(", ", ": ")`) — through `ContentRouter(ContentRouterConfig(skip_user_messages=False))`. - Observed result: before this change, compact JSON saved 0.0% (`router:noop`) while the identical data with spaces saved 43.3% (`router:tool_result:smart_crusher`) — same data, same compressor, only whitespace differed. After this change, compact JSON compresses equivalently to the spaced form. - Not tested: no behavior change expected for content that already tokenizes with whitespace (prose, code); those counts move from word-count to chars/4 but the ratio comparison is self-consistent (both sides use the same estimator). ## Review Readiness - [x] I have performed a self-review - [x] This PR is ready for human review ## Checklist - [x] My code follows the project's style guidelines - [x] I have performed a self-review of my code - [x] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas - [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation - [x] My changes generate no new warnings - [x] I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my feature works - [x] New and existing unit tests pass locally with my changes - [ ] I have updated the CHANGELOG.md if applicable ## Additional Notes Scope kept deliberately narrow: only the counts that feed compression-acceptance decisions are changed. Non-decision `.split()` uses elsewhere are left alone. Happy to add a CHANGELOG entry if you'd like one. --------- Co-authored-by: Tejas Chopra <chopratejas@gmail.com>	2026-07-14 06:54:01 -04:00
Zhenjia ZHOU	6c68ff4e9f	perf(compression): take large cold-start contexts off the synchronous kompress path (#1171) (#1298) ... ## Description On a cold-start large context, kompress (ModernBERT ONNX) runs **synchronously on the request thread** — ~200–300s for ~1M tokens. It blows the 30s compression budget, leaks a non-preemptible worker, and cascades (executor saturation → queue timeouts on healthy requests); on timeout the request is forwarded **uncompressed** after eating 30s. This adds four layered, **default-off, fail-open** mitigations so the request path is never blocked on ML compression. Closes #1171 ## Type of Change - [ ] Bug fix (non-breaking change that fixes an issue) - [x] New feature (non-breaking change that adds functionality) - [ ] Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change) - [ ] Documentation update - [x] Performance improvement - [ ] Code refactoring (no functional changes) ## Changes Made - **Phase 0 — size gate** (`HEADROOM_KOMPRESS_MAX_TOKENS`, default 50000): route oversized text away from ModernBERT (→ LogCompressor / TextCrusher / passthrough) at the single `_try_ml_compressor` boundary. - **Phase 1 — cooperative deadline** (`HEADROOM_COMPRESSION_DEADLINE_MS`, default 20000): any kompress run self-terminates at the next chunk boundary past the budget, keeping the unprocessed tail verbatim. - **Phase 2 — TextCrusher** (`HEADROOM_TEXT_CRUSHER`): a new **native Rust** extractive prose compressor in `crates/headroom-core/src/transforms/text_crusher/`, exposed via PyO3 as `headroom._core.TextCrusher` with a thin Python wrapper. It **reuses the shared `crate::relevance::BM25Scorer`** rather than reimplementing BM25, and ships record/replay parity fixtures (mirroring the SmartCrusher Rust-core + Python-shim pattern). - **Phase 3 — off-path compression** (`HEADROOM_BACKGROUND_COMPRESSION`): forward uncompressed immediately and compress in a per-process background drain; a byte-identical cache hit on a later turn means the request never blocks on ML. - Benchmark (`benchmarks/text_crusher_quality_eval.py`), CHANGELOG entry, and docstrings documenting the fail-open limits. ## Testing - [x] Unit tests pass (`pytest`) - [x] Linting passes (`ruff check`) - [x] Type checking passes (`mypy`, new modules) - [x] New tests added for new functionality - [ ] Manual testing performed (Phase 0/1 gate-fire + deadline observed on real traffic in earlier iterations; Phase 3 off-path is unit- + byte-identity-tested, not yet live-validated) ### Test Output ```text $ pytest tests/test_transforms/ tests/test_cache/ \ tests/test_proxy/test_background_compression.py tests/test_proxy/test_phase3_byte_identity.py -q 501 passed, 37 skipped in 40.33s $ cargo test -p headroom-core --lib text_crusher test result: ok. 3 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 834 filtered out $ ruff check <changed files> All checks passed! $ mypy headroom/proxy/background_compression.py headroom/transforms/text_crusher.py Success: no issues found in 2 source files ``` New coverage: size-gate incl. the strategy-dispatch funnel (KOMPRESS + TEXT); partial-run deadline (chunk-0 compressed + chunk-1 verbatim tail); BackgroundCompressor (dedup / queue-full / fail-open); Phase 3 byte-identity round-trip; TextCrusher unit + parity. ## Real Behavior Proof - Environment: macOS, local dev — `uv` venv, Rust `_core` built via `uv pip install -e .`. - Exact command / steps: the `pytest` / `cargo test` / `ruff` / `mypy` commands shown under Test Output; quality eval `python benchmarks/text_crusher_quality_eval.py /tmp/squad_dev.json`. - Observed result: 501 Python + 3 Rust tests pass; ruff + mypy clean on changed/new modules. Quality eval: TextCrusher keeps ~94% of buried SQuAD answers at 30% size vs ~36% truncate/random; self-contained speed run ~333k words in ~76ms (one O(n) pass) — sub-second where ModernBERT takes minutes (fast-vs-slow contrast, not a same-input run). - Not tested: Phase 3 off-path on live traffic; multi-worker (per-process by design — see Additional Notes). ## Review Readiness - [x] I have performed a self-review - [x] This PR is ready for human review ## Checklist - [x] My code follows the project's style guidelines - [x] I have performed a self-review of my code - [x] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas - [x] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation - [x] My changes generate no new warnings - [x] I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my feature works - [x] New and existing unit tests pass locally with my changes - [x] I have updated the CHANGELOG.md if applicable ## Additional Notes - **All four features are off by default and fail-open** — with the env flags unset the paths are no-ops for realistic inputs; on any error the request is forwarded (compressed if possible, else verbatim), never dropped. A full background queue / duplicate key surfaces as `deferred:dropped`. - **Known limits (documented in `background_compression.py`):** Phase 3 is per-process, in-memory, and token-mode-only — these are **lost-savings, never lost-correctness**, and consistent with the project's existing per-process compression cache + sticky-session multi-worker model. The startup multi-worker warning now names off-path background compression. - Phase 2 reuses the existing BM25 scorer; reuse did not improve answer-retention over a Python prototype (query-awareness dominates) — its value is the Rust speed + repo-conventional Rust-core/Python-shim shape. --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-06-23 10:48:06 -05:00